Boxing vs. Sport (Boxing)

[whswhs]

Originally Posted by Tomsdad

I'd say "boxing art" is probably what you see in boxing films, even if actors go and spend a couple of weeks in a gym.

Ah, no, that's Stage Combat.

There really isn't much of Boxing Art as a thing, at least not in familiar Western traditions. The Art forms are things like doing solitary tai chi for exercise or meditation. I suppose that shadow boxing would be an art, if you did it entirely for its own sake rather than as an adjunct to fighting people in the ring or at dockside.

[Tomsdad]

Originally Posted by whswhs

Ah, no, that's Stage Combat.

There really isn't much of Boxing Art as a thing, at least not in familiar Western traditions. The Art forms are things like doing solitary tai chi for exercise or meditation. I suppose that shadow boxing would be an art, if you did it entirely for its own sake rather than as an adjunct to fighting people in the ring or at dockside.

Fair enough, (i'd forgotten stage combat TBH) I guess there isn't really an artistic side to boxing, which make sense it is a "science" after all!

[RyanW]

Originally Posted by whswhs

There really isn't much of Boxing Art as a thing, at least not in familiar Western traditions. The Art forms are things like doing solitary tai chi for exercise or meditation.

Kata training is pretty clearly a form of Karate Art, when taken beyond the "shadow boxing to learn muscle memory" stage. I can't say I've ever seen anything similar in Western boxing.

If you're getting scored on accuracy and beauty of form, it's Art. If you're getting scored on hits or knockdowns, it's Sport. If you're getting scored on being alive and conscious at the end, it's the core skill.

[Lord Azagthoth]

I've broken my brains about these names too and finally replaced them.

Boxing with Punching
Judo with Grappling & Throwing
Karate with Striking
Sumo with Grappling & Pushing
Wrestling with Grappling & Pinning

I then could the above names for Arts/Sports/styles and my players who wanted to be a master in a certain kind of martial arts other than one of the standard used names were more satisfied (a player wanted to play a Kung Fu master during the Japanese oppression in the late thirties and he was opposed in taking the Karate skill).